This study aimed to explore the relationship of students’ happiness, stress, and emotional closeness to others to help move towards evidence-based practices for this population. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to examine whether college students’ perceived happiness differed significantly based on stress, frequency of stress management techniques, and emotional closeness to oth...

The current study investigated the impact that respondent gender, victim-perpetrator relationship, and the level of emotional closeness had on attributions in a hypothetical child sexual abuse case. A total of 160 university students read a hypothetical scenario depicting a female child sexually abused by an adult male. The perpetrator was either the victim's biological father or her stepfather...

In the propositional setting, a well-studied family of merging operators are distance-based ones: the models of the merged base are the closest interpretations to the given profile. Closeness is, in this context, measured as a number resulting from the aggregation of the distances to each base of the profile. In this work we define a new familly of propositional merging operators, close to such...

recommender systems utilize information retrieval and machine learning techniques for filtering information and can predict whether a user would like an unseen item. user similarity measurement plays an important role in collaborative filtering based recommender systems. in order to improve accuracy of traditional user based collaborative filtering techniques under new user cold-start problem a...

objective: many theorists agree that intimacy is a multidimensional concept and intimacy attitude components are different from intimate behavior components. this research aimed to determine the components of intimacy attitude in university students. methods: based on revised intimacy attitude scale (ias-r) which was originally developed by amidon et al. (1983), intimacy attitude components are...